Appeal No. 11-16577 involves an appeal of a ruling by Chief District Judge Ware on June 14, 2011, denying a motion to vacate the judgment in Perry v. Hollingsworth on the ground that the presiding judge, then-Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, now retired, should be disqualified from presiding over the case because he was involved in a same-sex relationship at the time. This oral argument was heard on Dember 8th, 2011 in Courtroom One of the James R. Browning Federal Courthouse before Circuit Judges Reinhardt, Hawkins, and NR Smith.